US Police State - victims jailed - cops above the law

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The Raw Milk Crackdown on the Most Peaceful Among Us:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/05/27/raw-milk -food-freedom.aspx?

'While Congress has never banned raw milk outright, it is the only food banned in interstate commerce. This makes it challenging (though not impossible) for small farmers to share their raw milk products with people living across state lines.

As a result, private agreements called herdshares are often formed between farmers and individuals, which entitle you to the benefits of owning a “share” of a cow, such as a certain amount of milk each week.

Despite these legal agreements, and the fact that many Americans choose to drink raw milk of their own free volition, aggressive armed raids by federal agents against raw-milk farmers are not uncommon...'

Yet they shove GMO's, pesticides and herbisides, aspartame, mercury and aluminium down our throats and into our veins; they poiiison the water with fracking, the air with Chemtrails, raise the radiation threshold when there is a disaster, and stop monitoring it!

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The Absurd, Bureaucratic Hell That Is the American Police State:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39248.htm

“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.”—C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

July 28, 2014 "ICH" - Whether it’s the working mother arrested for letting her 9-year-old play unsupervised at a playground, the teenager forced to have his genitals photographed by police, the underage burglar sentenced to 23 years for shooting a retired police dog, or the 43-year-old man who died of a heart attack after being put in a chokehold by NYPD officers allegedly over the sale of untaxed cigarettes, the theater of the absurd that passes for life in the American police state grows more tragic and incomprehensible by the day.

Debra Harrell, a 46-year-old South Carolina working mother, was arrested, charged with abandonment and had her child placed in state custody after allowing the 9-year-old to spend unsupervised time at a neighborhood playground while the mom worked a shift at McDonald’s. Mind you, the child asked to play outside, was given a cell phone in case she needed to reach someone, and the park—a stone’s throw from the mom’s place of work—was overrun with kids enjoying its swings, splash pad, and shade.

A Connecticut mother was charged with leaving her 11-year-old daughter in the car unsupervised while she ran inside a store—despite the fact that the child asked to stay in the car and was not overheated or in distress. A few states away, a New Jersey man was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of his children after leaving them in a car parked in a police station parking lot, windows rolled down, while he ran inside to pay a ticket.

A Virginia teenager was charged with violating the state’s sexting law after exchanging sexually provocative videos with his girlfriend. Instead of insisting that the matter be dealt with as a matter of parental concern, police charged the boy with manufacturing and distributing child pornography and issued a search warrant to “medically induce an erection” in the 17-year-old boy in order to photograph his erect penis and compare it to the images sent in the sexting exchange. The police had already taken an initial photograph of the boy’s penis against his will, upon his arrest.

In Georgia, a toddler had his face severely burned when a flash bang grenade, launched by a SWAT team during the course of a no-knock warrant, landed in his portable crib, detonating on his pillow. Also in Georgia, a police officer shot and killed a 17-year-old boy who answered the door, reportedly with a Nintendo Wii controller in his hands. The cop claimed the teenager pointed a gun at her, thereby justifying the use of deadly force. Then there was the incident wherein a police officer, responding to a complaint that some children were “chopping off tree limbs” creating “tripping hazards,” pulled a gun on a group of 11-year-old boys who were playing in a wooded area, attempting to build a tree fort.

While the growing phenomenon of cops shooting family pets only adds to the insanity (it is estimated that a family pet is killed by law enforcement every 98 minutes in America), it’s worse for those who dare to shoot a police dog. Ivins Rosier was 16 when he broke into the home of a Florida highway patrol officer and shot (although he didn’t kill) the man’s retired police dog. For his crime, the teenager was sentenced to 23 years in prison, all the while police officers who shoot family pets are rarely reprimanded.

Meanwhile if you’re one of those hoping to live off the grid, independent of city resources, you might want to think again. Florida resident Robin Speronis was threatened with eviction for living without utilities. Speronis was accused of violating the International Property Maintenance Code by relying on rain water instead of the city water system and solar panels instead of the electric grid.

Now we can shrug these incidents off as isolated injustices happening to “other” people. We can rationalize them away by suggesting that these people “must” have done something to warrant such treatment. Or we can acknowledge that this slide into totalitarianism—helped along by overcriminalization, government surveillance, militarized police, neighbors turning in neighbors, privatized prisons, and forced labor camps, to name just a few similarities—is tracking very closely with what we saw happening in Germany in the years leading up to Hitler’s rise to power.

When all is said and done, what these incidents reflect is a society that has become so bureaucratic, so legalistic, so politically correct, so militaristic, so locked down, so self righteous, and so willing to march in lockstep with the corporate-minded police state that any deviations from the norm—especially those that offend the sensibilities of the “government-knows-best” nanny state or challenge the powers that be—become grist for prosecution, persecution and endless tribulations for the poor souls who are caught in the crosshairs.

Then there are the incidents, less colorful perhaps but no less offensive to the sensibilities of any freedom-loving individual, which should arouse outrage among the populace but often slip under the radar of a sleeping nation.

For instance, not only is the NSA spying on and collecting the content of your communications, but it’s also going to extreme lengths to label as “extremists” anyone who attempts to protect their emails from the government’s prying eyes. Adding insult to injury, those same government employees and contractors spying on Americans’ private electronic communications are also ogling their private photos. Recent revelations indicate that NSA employees routinely pass around intercepted nude photos, considered a “fringe benefit” of surveillance positions.

A trove of leaked documents reveals the government’s unmitigated gall in labeling Americans as terrorists for little more than being suspected of committing “any act that is ‘dangerous’ to property and intended to influence government policy through intimidation.” As The Intercept reports: “This combination—a broad definition of what constitutes terrorism and a low threshold for designating someone a terrorist—opens the way to ensnaring innocent people in secret government dragnets.” All the while, the TSA, despite the billions of dollars we spend on the agency annually and the liberties to which its agents subject travelers, has yet to catch a single terrorist.

No less disconcerting are the rash of incidents in which undercover government agents encourage individuals to commit crimes they might not have engaged in otherwise. This “make work” entrapment scheme runs the gamut from terrorism to drugs. In fact, a recent report released by Human Rights Watch reveals that “nearly all of the highest-profile domestic terrorism plots in the United States since 9/11 featured the ‘direct involvement’ of government agents or informants.”

Most outrageous of all are the asset forfeiture laws that empower law enforcement to rake in huge sums of money by confiscating cash, cars, and even homes based on little more than a suspicion of wrongdoing. In this way, Americans who haven’t been charged with a crime, let alone convicted of wrongdoing, are literally being subjected to highway robbery by government agents offering profit-driven, cash-for-freedom deals.

So who or what is to blame for this bureaucratic nightmare delivered by way of the police state? Is it the White House? Is it Congress? Is it the Department of Homeland Security, with its mobster mindset? Is it some shadowy, power-hungry entity operating off a nefarious plan?

Or is it, as Holocaust survivor Hannah Arendt suggests, the sheepish masses who mindlessly march in lockstep with the government’s dictates—expressing no outrage, demanding no reform, and issuing no challenge to the status quo—who are to blame for the prison walls being erected around us? The author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt warned that “the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.”

This is where democracy falls to ruin, and bureaucracy and tyranny prevail.

As I make clear in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, we have only ourselves to blame for this bureaucratic hell that has grown up around us. Too many of us willingly, knowingly and deliberately comprise what Arendt refers to as “cogs in the mass-murder machine.”

These cogs are none other than those of us who have turned a blind eye to the government corruption, or shrugged dismissively at the ongoing injustices, or tuned out the mayhem in favor of entertainment distractions. Just as guilty are those who have traded in their freedoms for a phantom promise of security, not to mention those who feed the machine unquestioningly with their tax dollars and partisan politics.

And then there are those who work for the government, federal, state, local or contractor. These government employees—the soldiers, the cops, the technicians, the social workers, etc.—are neither evil nor sadistic. They’re simply minions being paid to do a job, whether that job is to arrest you, spy on you, investigate you, crash through your door, etc. However, we would do well to remember that those who worked at the concentration camps and ferried the victims to the gas chambers were also just “doing their jobs.”

Then again, if we must blame anyone, blame the faceless, nameless, bureaucratic government machine—which having been erected and set into motion is nearly impossible to shut down—for the relentless erosion of our freedoms through a million laws, statutes, and prohibitions.

If there is any glimmer of hope to be found, it will be at the local level, but we cannot wait for things to get completely out of control. If you wait to act until the SWAT team is crashing through your door, until your name is placed on a terror watch list, until you are reported for such outlawed activities as collecting rainwater or letting your children play outside unsupervised, then it will be too late.

Obedience is the precondition to totalitarianism, and the precondition to obedience is fear. Regimes of the past and present understand this. “The very first essential for success,” Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, “is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.” Is this not what we are seeing now with the SWAT teams and the security checkpoints and the endless wars?

This much I know: we are not faceless numbers. We are not cogs in the machine. We are not slaves. We are people, and free people at that. As the Founders understood, our freedoms do not flow from the government. They were not given to us, to be taken away at the will of the State; they are inherently ours. In the same way, the government’s appointed purpose is not to threaten or undermine our freedoms, but to safeguard them.

Until we can get back to this way of thinking, until we can remind Americans what it really means to be a free American, and learn to stand our ground in the face of threats to those freedoms, and encourage our fellow citizens to stop being cogs in the machine, we will continue as slaves in thrall to the bureaucratic police state.

John W. Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. Whitehead's concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization whose international headquarters are located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Whitehead serves as the Institute’s president and spokesperson, in addition to writing a weekly commentary that is posted on The Rutherford Institute’s website (www.rutherford.org)

Copyright 2014 © The Rutherford Institute

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Congress Mandates Jail Beds for 34,000 Immigrants as Private Prisons Profit:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-24/congress-fuels-private-jails- detaining-34-000-immigrants.html

'Noemi Romero, who came to the U.S. illegally at age 3, was arrested in January working at a Phoenix grocery store, where she used someone else’s name to get the job.

Romero, a 21-year-old who likes to draw and dance, spent the next four months behind bars, almost half of it in a cramped cell at a 1,596-bed detention center in Eloy, Arizona, run by Corrections Corp. of America. The company, with Geo Group Inc. (GEO) and other for-profit prison operators, holds almost two-thirds of all immigrants detained each day in federally funded prisons as they face deportation, U.S. data show.

Under law, taxpayers must pay to keep 34,000 people like Romero in jail, at a cost of about $120 each per day, even as the number of immigrants caught sneaking across the border has fallen by more than half since the past recession began.

Since 2009, when then-Senator Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, inserted a change into the Homeland Security Department’s annual spending bill, federal immigration officials have been placed in the unusual position of operating under a statutory quota on how many people to hold behind bars. Congressional Republicans have been defending it ever since.

“People are being kept in detention -- in many cases for weeks or months at a time -- without consideration for the individual circumstances,” said Denise Gilman, co-director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas law school in Austin. “This is being done at a tremendous financial cost to taxpayers and a tremendous human cost to families.”

Detention Quota

Prisons are one of the few institutions that states and the federal government have moved to privatize, creating a booming business for Corrections Corp. (CXW) and Geo, the two publicy traded companies that dominate the market. Both actively lobby Congress. Serving as government jailer has been a hit on Wall Street, as Corrections Corp. and Geo have each about doubled in value since mid-2010....'


Robert C. Byrd really was more evil than he looks in the photo on following link: 'Sen. Robert Byrd dead at 92; West Virginia lawmaker was the longest serving member of Congress in history':
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/28/AR2010 062801241.html

He is the one who ordered that a devil's face be carved into Cathy O'Brien's vagina, whilst she was a Mind Controlled Sex Slave (see 'Trance Formation of America' and the later 'Access Denied - For Reasons Of National Security' by Cathy O'Brien with Mark Phillips. Though she names Presidents of the US, Canada and Mexico as being among her abusers, neither she nor Mark have ever been sued. They have (and I have a copy) of 27,000 pages of copies of court documents where THEY have tried to get hearings and justice, especially for Cathy's daughter, who was also dreadfully abused.
To get an idea, watch: 'Ritual Abuse and MK-ULTRA Mind Control " Cathy O'Brien": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPtHsD0G-mY

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Detroit US Attorney threatens supporters of Rasmea Odeh:
http://us8.campaign-archive1.com/?u=50f24014e5eab7c0b4aef517d&id=3930e 70b80&e=37c35372ad

'Detroit US Attorney threatens supporters of Rasmea Odeh

Bizarre DOJ accusations against Hatem Abudayyeh attempt to criminalize opponents of political repression

In a bizarre and desperate move, prosecutors in the case of Palestinian American leader Rasmea Odeh filed a motion in Federal Court Oct. 3, which characterized the efforts of an important leader of the Rasmea Odeh defense campaign, Hatem Abudayyeh, as “jury tampering” and “almost certainly criminal.” The prosecution then asks Judge Gershwin Drain for an “Anonymous Jury,” which means that the names of the jurors are kept secret from the defense attorneys, and that an array of security measures are put it place during the trial that make it seem like 67 year old Rasmea Odeh is a dangerous person.

There is no evidence at all for the baseless accusations against the movement in support of Rasmea. The prosecutor’s motion is a clumsy attempt at intimidation, and should be condemned by everyone who is concerned about civil liberties.

Here are the facts. Rasmea Odeh is a beloved leader of the Palestinian community in Chicago who is facing trumped up immigration charges. Imprisoned by the Israelis in the late 60’s, due to her work to free Palestine, Rasmea was tortured and sexually abused. She is well known and well respected across the world. The federal government is threatening her with jail and deportation. As a result, a powerful and effective movement that has organized protests around the country, demanding “Justice for Rasmea,” has been built. Now the prosecutors are waging an attack on everyone involved in this movement to support and defend Rasmea.

They talk about “jury tampering.” Until there is a trial, there is no jury, so how could a jury possibly be tampered with? In any event, at no time have we ever tried to improperly influence a jury. Not once. What we are doing is organizing protests, having people sign petitions, and holding educational events. We are encouraging people to attend Rasmea’s court appearances. We are shining a light on the unjust prosecution of Rasmea. We want the government to drop the charges.



In the prosecutor’s motion we are told, “Hatem Abudayyeh has orchestrated a concerted effort to influence the criminal proceedings against defendant, which has resulted, at each proceeding, in a large group outside the Courthouse protesting and parading, carrying signs demanding dismissal of charges and 'Justice for Rasmea' and displaying the Palestinian flag.” Imagine that—Palestinians, Arabs, and progressive people responding to an injustice by holding a protest and engaging in activity that is protected by the first amendment. In the world that the Detroit U.S. Attorney wants, speaking out as we have is “almost certainly criminal.” On the contrary; it is criminal for the prosecutors to attempt to restrict our constitutional rights.

It is worth noting that there is a distinctly racist, anti-Arab undertone to the prosecutor’s motion, where spirited and dignified protests, with a majority of Palestinian American participants, are described as “hordes” and “mobs.” Again, the federal government is trying to sow fear among people in the U.S. by criminalizing and stereotyping Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims. As one of Rasmea's lawyers said when he was informed of the motion: "[it] is only intended to play the 'terrorism' card and is unacceptable."

The prosecutors also have a problem with people who want to petition the government for a redress of grievances, so they complain in their motion that those who want the charges against Rasmea dropped “have previously attempted to flood Department of Justice telephone lines in an attempt to influence these proceedings.”

We will continue to hold call in days and we will organize even more people to participate in them.

We take the threats of the prosecution seriously. We urge all of our supporters to keep their eyes on Detroit and to be ready to respond to any attacks on leaders of the Rasmea defense campaign.

We see these threats as a sign that our campaign to defend Rasmea Odeh is working. We were successful in getting Zionist Judge Borman off the case. There are now thousands of people across the country engaged in organizing for Rasmea. We will not allow the government to intimidate us. This attack will bring more supporters, and strengthen our work further. We will redouble our efforts to make sure the charges against Rasmea are dropped!'

Rasmea Defense Committee

For more information, uspcn.org and StopFBI.net.

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URGENT!! ISIS False Flag Attack On Truckers with Martial Law Planned by Obama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC2FgAVoScQ

Video about leaked info on 'False Flag' attack to close down Truck deliveries.
I don't know how credible this is, but we've been expecting some kind of 'False Flag' to bring in Martial Law.

Also:
Outrage as SWAT officers who disfigured toddler with grenade in botched drug raid will face NO charges:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2783268/Outrage-SWAT-officers- disfigured-toddler-botched-drug-raid-face-NO-charges.html

'...Baby Bou Bou was severely injured when grenade exploded in hisplaypen
Family devastated that officers involved in botched raid will not face charges:
SWAT team executed a no-knock warrant on Georgia property on May 28:
Toddler is 'still recovering' from brain injuries, collapsed lung and burns:
Officials refused to foot the $800,000 medical bills for Bou Bou's treatment:

'.The family of a toddler left disfigured after police threw a stun grenade into his playpen are 'devastated' that the officers involved will not face any charges.

Bounkham Phonesavanh, known as 'Baby Bou Bou', lost part of his nose and left nipple, and suffered burns to his face, brain injuries and a collapsed lung when the grenade exploded while he was sleeping on May 28.

But after hearing evidence for six days, this week a Georgia grand jury opted not to charge any SWAT officers who took part in the botched drug raid in which the 19-month-old was injured.
The Phonesavanh's family attorney Mawuli Davis told CBS 46 Atlanta: 'We are reviewing the grand jury findings with our client.

'They are devastated and trying to comprehend the gravity of this decision.

'This is a very sad day for this family and for the people of Georgia.'

The incident occurred while Bou Bou's mom Alecia Phonesavanh was staying with her husband, their three daughters and their baby son in the living room of her sister-in-law's home just outside of Atlanta.

They were living with relatives after their Wisconsin home burned down earlier that year.

The Habersham SWAT team executed a no-knock warrant on the property while searching for a relative they believed was a drug dealer and had a cache of weapons inside, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported.

The search turned up neither guns nor drugs. Wanis Thonetheva, who did not live at the property, was arrested later that day and charged with possession of methamphetamine.'

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US Woman jailed for 30 days for 'suspected' drug residue, turned out to be what she said it was, spaghetti sauce:

Charges Dropped As Residue On Spoon Not Meth, Just Spaghetti Sauce:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/crime/charges-dropped-residue-s poon-not-meth-just-spaghetti-sauce


By Kathryn Schroeder, Tue, September 23, 2014

Drug charges have been dropped against a woman from Commerce, Georgia.

Ashley Gabrielle Huff, 23, was charged with possession of methamphetamine after being arrested in July by the Gainesville Police Department.


Huff maintained her innocence and said the suspect residue on a spoon found in the car at the time of her arrest was merely spaghetti sauce.

“I think she said it had been SpaghettiOs,” Gainesville Times reports Hall County assistant public defender Chris van Rossem said.

Huff was telling the truth as lab reports have confirmed the spoon did not contain any sort of drug residue, reports YJ News.

“The Crime Lab report showed no controlled substances on the spoon submitted for testing,” according to a dismissal signed by Northeastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Lee Darragh.

Prior to Huff’s July arrest she had never been charged with any type of felony or drug-related offense.

Huff had been in the process of a plea deal before the district attorney’s office filed a dismissal following the crime lab’s analysis.

“I think what the unfortunate part about her case is that she was probably willing to take the felony to close out her case so that she get out of jail, even though she always maintained innocence,” van Rossem said.

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'While We Are Watching Ebola, Did the UN Just Make a Global Patriot Act?':
http://madworldnews.com/un-global-patriot-act/

'While our eyes are watching Ebola, ISIS, and the border crisis, did the UN just declare a global version of the Patriot Act?

We have had many things going on to divert our attention. We have the group ISIS about to destroy and torture people in a Kurdish town in Syria. We have a president who’s ISIS strategy is taken down in less than two minutes by MSNBC. We have the growing crisis of Ebola now spreading to other countries besides West Africa. We have White House staff and a General saying, when it comes to Ebola, “We’re Screwed.”

Now, enter the United Nations (UN).

In what they are calling a victory on the “global war on terror,” the UN Security Council just gave a resolution to the UN body that they voted on unanimously. It seems innocent enough, after all, as it condemns al-Qaeda, ISIS, and their affiliates and tightens sanctions on people traveling to fight with the terrorist organizations. These all sound like good things, right?

There is just one problem. Inside a resolution they reaffirmed is wording for the creation of a global monitoring unit similar to the Department of Homeland Security and all the clauses of the US Patriot Act.

If you thought gathering email, Facebook posts, what you shop for, who you talk to on the phone, TSA, and others were bad, what happens when you turn that same kind of power over to the UN?

While some people point out the bias of a media outlet like RT, you can find Resolution 1373 here, which they reaffirmed but was not adopted by all nations originally in 2001. You can also view the discussion of the monitoring unit and the first individuals brought up on charges on the UN web site.

The resolution adds in “reasonable suspicion” of anti-government activity. In fact, it is the very same wording that brought all of U.S. law enforcement under one branch, made the NSA, and gave them monitoring power over the citizens in the downloadable copy of the original US Patriot Act.

It even allows the UN to bring people up on War Crimes charges and Crimes against Humanity. While they are stating that it is to be used to fight global terror, haven’t we heard that before and had our freedoms stripped away in the process?

Did they just create a global version of the very legislation that took freedoms from U.S. citizens?

The only bright side to this is the fact that individuals in congress like John McCain and also the President might want to take a look at the individuals unanimously brought up on charges. All six were set to be tried by the UN upon capture for giving money, comfort, and aide to al-Qaeda splinter groups. Does anyone remember Syria 2013 and where the “freedom fighters” against Assad started?'


The resolution adds in “reasonable suspicion” of anti-government activity(?)Surely they can't mean the 'Regime Change' attacks on Governments by the US and it's motley crew of murderous brigands (or 'Coalitions', as they like to call them)?

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